Speed up your Google Chrome browser with one easy trick
USE the Google Chrome browser? Streamline your experience and speed up your computer with this fast-and-easy fix.
A new Chrome extension promises to speed up your computer – by freezing any unused tabs in your browser.
Keeping a selection of tabs open in your internet browser can really bog down your computer's performance.
Keeping a selection of tabs open in your internet browser can really bog down your computer's performance
Unused Chrome tabs are often quietly slogging away in the background – sipping at memory and slowing down the whole PC.
But a new – and free – Chrome browser extension dubbed Great Suspender hopes to solve the issue.
The lightweight plug-in freezes tabs when you are not actively using them.
This prevents the tabs from chugging away at your computer performance behind-the-scenes and reduces the browser's memory footprint.
Great Suspender offers users a surprising amount of customisability.
Tabs can be set to auto-suspend after a certain amount of time.
Some websites can be highlighted on a WhiteList so they avoid suspension from the plug-in, which means the Live Blog you are constantly checking will be exempt from the performance enhancing extension.
Suspended tabs are retained after closing and reopening browser – preventing dozens of tabs from all reloading after a restart.
Tabs will retain their favicon and title text, even when they are unloaded by the Great Suspender.
And should you need to resume using a suspended tab, it can quickly be restored by clicking anywhere on the webpage.
